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> Your sore knee analogy... probably really did end in wholesale unnecessary amputation and death

Really? It doesn't seem likely to me that even a primitive medical person would amputate a leg because someone's knee hurts




We know amputations date back to stone age times - https://saesferd.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/prehistoric-ampute...

http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/modern-treatments/a....

Lots of medical/all history will surprise you right into the 20th century and beyond -

http://www.cracked.com/article_15669_the-10-most-insane-medi...

#10 morphine cough syrup for kids

#9 mercury for ... everything

#8 heroin for coughs

#7 electric shocks to cure erectile dysfunction

#6 lobotomies for mental illnesses

#5 urine therapy ... lives on

#4 bloodletting for ... everything

#3 tapeworms for weight loss

#2 holes in skulls for headaches

#1 vaginal massages for female hysteria




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